With Resourceful Reclamation, Chiffon Thomas Crafts New Forms From Old Structures

As Chiffon Thomas prepares for his firstsolo museum show—“The Cavernous,” opening in September at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut—he is mining the legacy of the geodesic dome, plumbing it for contemporary resonances. The utopian “hippie modernist” structure, as popularized by American architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, was an effort to make shelter more efficient and affordable at a time when the United States faced a serious